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Japanese   /dʒˌæpənˈiz/   Listen
adjective
Japanese  adj.  Of or pertaining to Japan, or its inhabitants.



noun
Japanese  n.  
1.
A native or inhabitant of Japan; collectively, the people of Japan.
2.
sing. The language of the people of Japan, called in the Japanese language nihongo.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Japanese" Quotes from Famous Books



... waiting—when the boy, with the help of the little girl, would try to be everything that the billboards pictured, from the roaring lion in his cage to the painted clown who cut such side splitting capers and the human fly that, with her gay Japanese parasol, walked upside down upon a polished ceiling. When circus day was coming, the fairies and knights and princes and soldiers and all their tried and true companions were forced to go somewhere—anywhere—out of the ...
— Their Yesterdays • Harold Bell Wright

... study of war and diplomacy in the Orient that With the "should be read by every American who is interested in the Japanese future of our status in the Far East."—New York ...
— Kitchener's Mob - Adventures of an American in the British Army • James Norman Hall

... diseases: degree of risk: high food or waterborne diseases: bacterial diarrhea and hepatitis A vectorborne diseases: dengue fever, malaria, Japanese encephalitis, and plague are high risks in some locations animal contact disease: rabies water contact ...
— The 2005 CIA World Factbook • United States. Central Intelligence Agency

... rushed to the boy's face. It was an irritating fact that in the senior class of that particular Los Angeles high school a Japanese boy stood at the head. This ...
— Her Father's Daughter • Gene Stratton-Porter

... uncertain regions of wandering balls and bursting shells. The Carletons, both uncle and nephew, had often, while out collecting news, to scud from cover to cover, and amid the "zip, zip" of bullets. Dangerous as the service was, there was little reward to the eyesight, for the Confederate army, like the Japanese dragon of art, was to be seen only in ...
— Charles Carleton Coffin - War Correspondent, Traveller, Author, and Statesman • William Elliot Griffis


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